I made some more progress! I decided the distributor was still in a tooth off because the vacuum advance was hitting the heater control valve so I moved it now it runs better where it looks right
I also tightened up the power steering belt and put the new alternator belt on. It's not charging but that's not that big of deal. I don't have a working timing light so timing right now is just a best guess I advanced it until it ran good then backed it off until it cranked ok. I did some choke adjustment so it will actually come off fast idle. I then went back and forth with timing the vacuum gauge and the idle screw to try and get some kind of base setting and it seems like it worked. I wanted to make sure I didn't back off the choke to much so I let it cool off. In the meantime I went back to the spray paint on the quarter. Here's a tip for diy people please don't put rattle caned crap all over your car. There's a time and place for that stuff and by all means if your going to prime something, please send it first. The quarter is looking better and I have a plan to temporarily make the hole car look better. Besides blowing it apart and painting it.
If you notice in that image the trunk lid is spray painted also and I cleaned it off from the body line out to the quarter.
After scrubbing with thinner and scraping with a razor I think it looks better than it did but I've got some more to do. Dose anyone sell rear lower quarter patches for these cars yet?
The choke setting worked out good and I took the car for a ride around the shop to see how it is.
Well it has no problem getting out of shape and going around corners sideways now and it's never done that ever. This leads me to believe I've taken a step in the right direction. It goes ok now but it's still not right. If you get on it hard and get back out quick it stalls. And the brakes are horrible. All and all I'm happy with the progress and I'm going to keep pushing forward.
I also tightened up the power steering belt and put the new alternator belt on. It's not charging but that's not that big of deal. I don't have a working timing light so timing right now is just a best guess I advanced it until it ran good then backed it off until it cranked ok. I did some choke adjustment so it will actually come off fast idle. I then went back and forth with timing the vacuum gauge and the idle screw to try and get some kind of base setting and it seems like it worked. I wanted to make sure I didn't back off the choke to much so I let it cool off. In the meantime I went back to the spray paint on the quarter. Here's a tip for diy people please don't put rattle caned crap all over your car. There's a time and place for that stuff and by all means if your going to prime something, please send it first. The quarter is looking better and I have a plan to temporarily make the hole car look better. Besides blowing it apart and painting it.
If you notice in that image the trunk lid is spray painted also and I cleaned it off from the body line out to the quarter.
After scrubbing with thinner and scraping with a razor I think it looks better than it did but I've got some more to do. Dose anyone sell rear lower quarter patches for these cars yet?
The choke setting worked out good and I took the car for a ride around the shop to see how it is.
Well it has no problem getting out of shape and going around corners sideways now and it's never done that ever. This leads me to believe I've taken a step in the right direction. It goes ok now but it's still not right. If you get on it hard and get back out quick it stalls. And the brakes are horrible. All and all I'm happy with the progress and I'm going to keep pushing forward.
